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President Barack Obama gives his Nobel speech

When war is just – by Obama the peace prize winner

US President's Nobel speech forecasts more bloodshed to come in Afghanistan

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'Lover' apologises to Tiger's wife

Friday, 11 December 2009

Jamiee Grubbs, the first of a parade of women who have surfaced in the last two weeks as alleged former lovers of the married golfing star Tiger Woods, may have a word or two she would like to say to him. But first it was his wife, Elin Nordegren, that she addressed yesterday along the lines of "Oops, I'm sorry".

Mr Soumayah and Ms Minnelli at a Broadway opening in 2001, before their working relationship soured

Liza Minnelli sex lawsuit is settled out of court

Friday, 11 December 2009

Chauffeur drops claim that singer beat him and coerced him into sex

Manuel Zelaya speaks at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa

Honduras deadlock over Zelaya

Friday, 11 December 2009

Honduras's coup-installed government said yesterday that there will be no deal for ousted leader Manuel Zelaya to leave the country unless he goes as a private citizen – not as the country's president.

Court to rule if Polanski can fight case from afar

Thursday, 10 December 2009

A Los Angeles appeals court will consider whether Roman Polanski needs to appear in person to pursue his claim that his child rape case was tainted by judicial and prosecutorial misconduct and should be thrown out.

How Frosty appears in one of the trailers produced by the CBS network

Frosty the smutty snowman's adult skit whips up storm for CBS

Thursday, 10 December 2009

Fury over adult-themed trailers promoting network's Christmas schedule

The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Thorbjoern Jagland, with this year's winner

Obama 'doesn't deserve' peace prize

Thursday, 10 December 2009

President Barack Obama will accept this year's Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo this morning, tackling head-on the paradox in his receiving the accolade just 10 days after committing an additional 30,000 US troops to the war in Afghanistan.

Nanny prosecutor is likely Kennedy successor

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

David Usborne: Martha Coakley, who led the 1997 case against Briton Louise Woodward, is set to be next US Senator from Massachusetts

In 2007, Tiger Woods's last full season, he was estimated to have earned $99.8m in off-course earnings and $22.9m in on-course earnings - a total of $122.7m

Woods counts cost of scandal as television adverts disappear

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

Golf star plummets 18 places on list of industry's most valuable 'faces'

Convicted killer executed with pet anaesthetic

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

The state of Ohio yesterday executed a convicted murderer using the first lethal injection to contain just a single poison rather than the cocktail of three chemicals that has hitherto been used across the US.

Grant Baker from South Africa rides a 40-foot wave during the Big Wave surf contest on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii yesterday

Pacific heights: North Shore of Oahu hits the jackpot

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

Waimea Bay's waves are legendary but yesterday brought the biggest swell in years and a dramatic surfing contest.

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